Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jamestown settlement in Virginia, which officially was started on May 14, 1607, was one of the first European colonies to last ...

With their consent, the state engaged Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution for his expertise in the field of physical anthropology and his well-known work with early colonial settlements ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of four of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America, buried for more than 400 years near the altar of what was ...

Colonial-style homes are something you've seen many times, even if you don't know what they're called. First built during the era between 1565 and 1783, Colonial homes were built by settlers from ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2018. Pp. xii, 180. Illus., maps, appends., biblio., index. $32.95. ISBN: 9781526725219 America’s First ...